Quotes about Humor
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
- Ernest Hemingway
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
- GK Chesterton
If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
- Frederic William Farrar
Firstly, I will never leave comedy because I love doing it. Secondly, it's the genre that has given me acceptance and immense love from the audience.
- Varun Sharma
Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.
- Beth Moore
A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law."
- Bill Bailey
I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'
- Bill Bailey
I got ham but I'm not a Hamster
- Bill Bailey
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
- Mark Twain
I believe it is tough to be funny and tougher to make people laugh. And it needs to be been done effortlessly. A joke can be comedy, but one can kill the joke if it is delivered badly.
- Vivek Oberoi
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
- Mark Twain
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.
- Mark Twain